oh, yes, got to use the gavel. the hearing will come to order, once again welcome director hall, thank you for joining us today and for all the work that you and everyone at cbo has done to update the baseline and economic outlook that will help guide our work this year. since today was supposed to be the original date of the president's state of the union address, let's start by acknowledging what should be obvious. the state of our union is unsustainable. deficit projections over the next decade are unrivaled by any time in our nations history, save for world war ii and the immediate aftermath of the great recession. with this time we weren't responding to an emergency, we created one. we are not in the situation because we were forced to make a tough choice to save the american people. no, we are facing this bleak disco reality because this president and the so-called fiscal conservatives in his party chose to squander the nation's wealth insolvency, to take resources from those in need so they could bolster the

telling them in return for you giving us the gavel, we are going to do everything we can, every single day to give you their democracy back and make sure this truly is a government of, by and for the people. thank you for being here today. [applause] it's my privilege, someone who's been a fighter for democracy talks about fighting for the soul of our democracy every day. the new chairman of the oversight and government reform committee, elisha. [cheering] >> thank you. i want to thank you for putting your blood, sweat and tears in this effort. you have been spectacular. i want to speak, i want to thank speaker pelosi for your leadership with regard to this historic package. the midterm elections work monumental and historic. the american people gave congress a mandate to finally start conducting wettable oversight and reforms. over the last two years, president trump set the tone from the top of his administration that behaving ethically and complying with the law is optional. ladies and gentlemen, i want to say we are better than that. [applause] it's not optional. we have seen gross

and telling them in return for you giving us the gavel, we're going to do everything we can can, every single day, to give you your democracy back and make sure this truly is a government of, by, and for the people. thank you for being here today. [applause] it's my privilege someone who has been a fighter for democracy, he talks about fighting for the soul of our democracy every single day, the new chairman of the oversight and government reform ommittee, elijah cummings. mr. cummings: thank you. thank you, john. i want to thank you for putting your blood, sweat, and tears in this effort. you have been simply spectacular. i want to thank speaker pelosi, majority leader hoyer for your leadership with regard to this historic package. the midterm elections were monumental and historic. the american people gave congress a mandate to finally start conducting credible oversight and enacting reforms. over the last two years, president trump set the tone from the top in his administration that behaving ethically and complying with the law is optional. ladies and gentlemen, i stopped by here t

and telling them in return for you giving us the gavel, we're going to do everything we can, every single day, to give you your democracy back and make sure this truly is a government of, by, and for the people. thank you for being here today. [applause] it's my privilege someone who has been a fighter for democracy, he talks about fighting for the soul of our democracy every single day, the new chairman of the oversight and government reform committee, elijah cummings. mr. cummings: thank you. thank you, john. i want to thank you for putting your blood, sweat, and tears in this effort. you have been simply spectacular. i want to thank speaker pelosi, majority leader hoyer for your leadership with regard to this historic package. the midterm elections were monumental and historic. the american people gave congress a mandate to finally start conducting credible oversight and enacting reforms. over the last two years, president trump set the tone from the top in his administration that behaving ethically and complying with the law is optional. ladies and gentlemen, i stopped by here to simp

and telling them in return for you giving us the gavel, we're going to do everything we can, every single day, to give you your democracy back and make sure this truly is a government of, by, and for the people. thank you for being here today. [applause] it's my privilege someone who has been a fighter for democracy, he talks about fighting for the soul of our democracy every single day, the new chairman of the oversight and government reform committee, elijah cummings. mr. cummings: thank you. thank you, john. i want to thank you for putting our blood, sweat, and tears in this effort. you have been simply spectacular. i want to thank speaker pelosi, majority leader hoyer for your leadership with regard to this istoric package. the midterm elections were monumental and historic. the american people gave congress a mandate to finally start conducting credible oversight and enacting reforms. over the last two years, president trump set the tone from the top in his administration that behaving ethically and complying with the law is optional. ladies and gentlemen, i stopped by here to simply

the bargain that her class made with the electorate was if you give us the gavel, if you return the democrats to the majority, we will turn around and give you your democracy back. so she represents dozens and dozens of new members of congress who came here understanding the power of this message, this narrative, this promise of taking back our country and returning to a government of, by, and for the people. katie porter. >> thank you. i am delighted to be here as a new member and especially thankful for two things. to be joined by so many wonderful leaders and advocates and to have a very warm coat. very cold compared to california. but what the congressman said about the way in which the newly elected members campaigned on this issue is exact wli right. so when people would say as so many voters did, how are you going to make progress on health care? how are you going to make progress on climate change? how are you going to make progress on prescription drugs or consumer protection or education? the answer was we have to make sure the fundamental machinery of our democracy is working for t

and we're going to go -- get to use the gavel again. go ahead and adjourn. thank you. >> the hon. london breed: all right, folks. how you doing today? i'm london breed. i'm the mayor for san francisco. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: and i am really excited to be here because we got something actually accomplished in the city and county of san francisco by working together. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: i want to take this opportunity to recognize members of the san francisco board of supervisors who are joining us today, including the president of the board of supervisors, norman yee, supervisors vallie brown, ahsha safai, and gordon mar, and matt haney. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: now i know that it took us a little while to get here, and one of the things that i am so excited about is the fact that we are here. we are here because the building and construction trades, some members of the board of supervisors, some of our department heads, like phil ginsburg and mohamed nuru, they all came to the table, and many of

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nancy pelosi next into taking the gavel us a new speaker of the house nancy pelosi reclaimed the post she already held from two thousand and seven to twenty eleven nation is an historic moment two months ago the american people spoke and demanded a new dawn they called upon the beauty of our constitution our system of checks and balances that protects our democracy remembering that the legislative branch is he quickly went on the offensive approving bills to reopen the government without the money for the border will president trump demands with a conflict likely to intensify what didn't you will be elected lawmakers this is only the beginning. aid workers say the health of nearly fifty migrants stuck on a rescue ships off the coast of malta is deteriorating the migrants were rescued in waters off libya's coast within the last two weeks to rescue ships which are run by german aid organizations are now located near multi activists say those on board are suffering severe sea sickness brought on by rough seas and heavy weather malta italy and spain have all refused to let the passengers

nancy pelosi next and she is taking the gavel us the new speaker of the house nancy pelosi reclaimed the post she already held from two thousand and seven to twenty eleven nation is in stark moment two months ago the american people spoke and demanded a new dawn they called upon the beauty of the. our constitution our system of checks and balances to protect our democracy remembering that the legislative branch is article one the first branch of government co-equal to the presidency and she said she had to share. the new majority quickly went on the offensive approving bills to reopen the government and without the money for the border will president trump demands with a conflict likely to intensify with the new elected lawmakers this is only the beginning. for more of the story i'm joined by boris form on he's professor of politics at bard college here in berlin specializing in american public policy thank you for joining us this morning the democrat led house has approved a new draft budget bill that does not include funding for the border wall the president trump wall what do anyt

nancy pelosi next and she is taking the gavel us the new speaker of the house nancy pelosi reclaim the post she already held from two thousand and seven to twenty eleven nation is in stark alone. two months ago the american people spoke and demanded and i don't think called upon the beauty of our constitution our system of checks and balances that protect our democracy remembering that the legislative branch is article one the first branch of government co-equal to the presidency and she vision to share. the new majority quickly went on the offensive approving bills to reopen the government but without the money for the border will president trump demands with a conflict likely to intensify for the new elected lawmakers this is only the beginning. let's look at some other stories making headlines around the world today russian prosecutors have formally charged u.s. citizen paul whelan with espionage a former brain was detained in moscow last friday is going is now seeking his release on bail suspects family denies he was spy and says he was visiting moscow to attend a friend's wedding.

us house of representatives, she reclaimed the gavel after the most diverse class a lawmakers were sworn in, and as democrats took control of the house after mid—term election gains, which comes after mid—term election gains, which co m es after after mid—term election gains, which comes after the us government is still partly shut down in a row over funds for the president's border wall. and congressional leaders are expected to return to the white house later to resume talks after failing to end the partial government shutdown. in talks with president trump on wednesday, he has made it clear that he will veto any budget deal which does not include $5 billion for his planned wall on the mexican border. democrats have refused to agree to that level of funding. well, three former credit suisse bankers have been arrested in london. us prosecutors have accused them of taking part in a fraud scheme involving $2 billion in loans to state—owned companies in mozambique. the arrest comes five days after former mozambique finance minister manuel chung was arrested in south africa as part

>> host: stephen denis joining us come he covers the senate for bloomberg and getting us a sense of what to expect today as the 116th congress gavels in not want to take part of the ceremony but start the business of the senate. stephen dennis, thanks for your time. >> guest: great to be here. >> host: as you are just mentioned, there's a lot of pieces of this is to do but there's also ceremony involved. when the senate comes in they will be the opening prayer, the gambling in come some of the business and then senators, check with the newly elected ones will have a chance to be sworn in and then have a chance to also have their picture taken with the vice president later on today. that is just part of what goes on on this opening day especially as some of these activities that begin. that's what you can expect as you want and continue watch on c-span2 throughout the afternoon. will show you the actual going on. will have a chance to reflect on as the afternoon progresses. you could always give your comments and make note of what you see and what you like to see. a lot of avenues to do t

and now i yield myself five minutes for the opening statement. oh, yes. got to use the gavel. the hearing will come to order. once again, welcome dr. hall -- director hall. thank you for joining us today. and for all of the work you and everyone at cbo has done to update the baseline and economic outlook that will help guide our work in year. since today was supposed to be the original day of the president's state of the union address let's acknowledge what should be obvious .state of our union is unsustainable. deficit projections over the next decade are unrivaled by any time in our nation's history, save for world war ii and the immediate aftermath of the great recession. only this time we weren't responding to an emergency. we created one. we're not in this situation because we were forced to make a tough choice to save the american people. no. we are facing this bleak fiscal reality because in president and the so-called fiscal conservatives in his party chose to squander our nation's welt are you wavelength and solvency. to exacerbate inequally taking resources from thos

us about the approach in the house. 116th gavels in. they took of spending bills. this week they take up four bills. why are they starting with the treasury and irs bill? kellie: that is one of the most immediate impact that people notice. the trump administration has already tried to rearrange funds , so they say that these w-2's and tax refunds, they can at least issue the w-2's, because this is going to affect irs refunds. that is only a matter of how long extra funds are lying around in these agencies' coffers. they can somehow use their authority to move that money to keep things open. we are going to first go with the financial services bill. this is going to be on wednesday. the house is going to vote on a rule which contains four appropriations bills. the first one gets sent over to the senate and financial services. on thursday, we have agriculture, interior environment, and on friday, consideration and passage of the transportation hud bill. in addition to those legislative vehicles you mentioned earlier, spending bills they d

nancy pelosi extant you taking the gavel us a new speaker of the house nancy pelosi reclaim the post she already held from two thousand and seven to twenty eleven nation is a stark moment two months ago the american people spoke and demanded a new dawn they called upon the beauty of our constitution our system of checks and balances to protect our democracy remembering that the legislative branch is article one the first branch of government co-equal to the presidency and she said . the new majority quickly went on the fans of approving bills to reopen the government but without the money for the border wall president trumped demands for the conflict likely to intensify for the newly elected lawmakers this is only the beginning. aid workers say the health of nearly fifty migrants stuck on rescue ships off the coast of malta is deteriorating the migrants were rescued in waters off libya's coast within the last two weeks that your rescue ships which are run by german aid organizations are now located near malta activists say those on board are suffering severe sea sickness brought on b

nancy pelosi extends you taking the gavel us a new speaker of the house nancy pelosi reclaim the post she already held from two thousand and seven to twenty eleven nation is in stark alone. two months ago the american people spoke and demanded and i don't think called upon the beauty of our constitution our system of checks and balances to protect our democracy remembering that the legislative branch is article one the first branch of government co-equal to the presidency and she vision to share. the new majority quickly went on the offensive approving bills to reopen the government and without the money for the border would president trump demands with a conflict likely to intensify well then you'll be elected lawmakers this is only the beginning. for more on the story i'm joined by boris form on he's professor of politics at bard college here in berlin specializing in american public policy thank you for joining us this morning the democrat led house has approved a new draft budget bill that does not include funding for the border wall the president trump wall what do anything to en

she has been through this before it did not take long for her to use the gavel to push through able to fully fund the government and and the partial shutdown. here is the rub. the measure does not fund the president board of all. spot the president cannot hold public employees hostage because he wants a wall. it is not effective in terms of the purpose. not cost effective. >> i want to start off by congratulating nancy pelosi on being elected speaker of the house. truck president trump made an unusual appearance with border patrol agents back his wall. >> have never had so much support as i have the last week. over my spans for border security. for border control and for all the while her barrier. truck despite the new congress the math has not changed. >> it is a difference of a couple of billion dollars which is nothing very government is wasteful. it is a joke. this is a question of where one will one of the other file enough pain in this to lose faith and let ago. >> reporter: can either side that go? we may get a better idea littered they would democratic and republican kirk gresh

i yield myself 15 minutes for the opening statement. gotta use the gavel. the hearing will come to order. once again, welcome dr. hall -- director hall. thank you for joining us today. for all of the work you and everyone at cbo has done to update the baseline and economic outlook that will help guide our work this year. since today was supposed to be the original day of the president's state of the union address, let's start by acknowledging what had you shou obvious. the state of our union is unsustainable. deficit projections are unrivals by a ed. only this time, we weren't responding to an emergency. we created one. we weren't forced to make a tough choice. we are facing this because this president and the so-called fiscal conservatives in his party chose to squander our nation's wealth and solvency to exacerbate record income inequality, to take resources from those in need to bolster the wealthy with tax cuts for millionaires and multinational corporations. director hall, you projected the a deficit that's $118 billion higher than last year. average d

us about the approach in the house. last year, the 116th gavels in. they took of spending bills. this week they take up four bills. why are they starting with the treasury and irs bill? kellie: that is one of the most immediate impact that people notice. the trump administration has already tried to rearrange funds, so they say that these w-2's and tax refunds, they can at least issue the w-2's, because this is going to affect irs refunds. that is only a matter of how long extra funds are lying around in these agencies' coffers. they can somehow use their authority to move that money to keep things open. we are going to first go with the financial services bill. this is going to be on wednesday. the house is going to vote on a rule which contains four appropriations bills. the first one gets sent over to the senate and financial services. on thursday, we have agriculture, interior environment, and on friday, consideration and passage of the transportation hud bill. in addition to those legislative vehicles you mentioned

>> well, tell us about the approach in the house. last week, the 116th gavels in, they took up two packages of spending bills. this week, they're taking up four separate bills. why are they doing this approach, and why are they starting with the treasury and irs bill, financial services bill? >> so that's one of the most immediate impacts that people noticed. the trump administration -- president trump's administration has already tried to rearrange funds, so they say that these w-2s and tax refunds can still start to be kind of -- they can least issue out the w-2s, because this is going to affect irs refunds. but, again, that's only a matter of how long extra funds kind of lying around in these agencies' coffers carry over balances. other small amounts of money in various programs. they can somehow use their authority to move that money to keep things open. but, again, so we're going to first go with this financial services bill, funding irs, treasury. this is going to be on wednesday, the house is going to vote on a rule, which con

join us at noon on thursday as the 116th congress gavels into session. the election of a new speaker in the congress beginning its work. new congress, new leaders, live on c-span. five new members from minnesota join the house of representatives, including the only two republicans elected to seats previously held by democrats. was a policee before being elected to minnesota's commission. he played professional hockey. he spoke with us about some of the lessons he learned from that sport. perseverance, hard work is always the equalizer. i played three years. >> the other republican is jim hagedorn in the first district. he succeeds tim walz. hagedorn son of tom and served on the congressional staff of arlen's england. he worked for the treasury department. angie greg is a former reporter for the commercial appeal in memphis. she moved to minnesota in 2005 to be an executive at st. jude medical. she's the first openly gay fromn elected to congress minnesota. one of the first two women -- muslim women elected to congress. she became an american citizen in 2

she takes over just at this point when the us federal government is in shock. you've been talking about that. when she grabbed at gavel from a republican. she grabbed it? she grabbed it, absolutely. it's the third most important lawmaker in the united states. she says she is going to open up government. all her democratic supporters cheer wildly and the republicans remained stony faced. all the gavel is in the world are not going to get the republicans to change their mind, are they? we are ina to change their mind, are they? we are in a very interesting situation. week by week, we are hearing american gdp is being affected in the ads that week in week out, that will be a significant hit. now basically, this trump going to link first? let's move on to this story in city am. the titles is crunch time but not sure if it is. this has been brewing for quite awhile. there different elements of telling us that things are just not quite right with the global economy. we had the news from apple that has really broken from china, but growth is slowing down and could fue

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nancy pelosi next and she is taking the gavel us a new speaker of the house nancy pelosi reclaimed the post she already held from two thousand and seven to twenty eleven nation is in stark. moment two months ago the american people spoke and demanded a new dawn they called upon the beauty of our constitution our system of checks and balances to protect our democracy remembering that the legislative branch is article one the first branch of government co-equal to the presidency and she vision to share. the new majority quickly went on the offensive approving bills to reopen the government but without the money for the border would president trump demands with a conflict likely to intensify or didn't you elected lawmakers this is only the beginning. now he was only sworn in this week but brazil's new president chair balsa naro has started a perch of the public service also now has authorized the dismissal of some three hundred public servants on temporary contracts since taking office on tuesday of this week targets officials who don't share his administration's far right ideology his ow

nancy pelosi extends you taking the gavel us a new speaker of the house nancy pelosi reclaimed the post she already held from two thousand and seven to twenty eleven nation is in stark moment. two months ago the american people spoke and demanded a new dawn they called upon the beauty of our constitution our system of checks and balances that protect our democracy remembering that the legislative branch is article one the first branch of government co-equal to the presidency and to. the new majority quickly went on the offensive approving bills to reopen the government but without the money for the border would president trump demands with a conflict likely to intensify for the new elected lawmakers this is only the beginning. now to concerns of the health of dozens of migrants trying to board to german rescue ships are growing and they were picked up in the past two weeks but authorization for a letter have refused to allow them to disembark while several german members of parliament were on board one of the ships a migrant a had to be really rescued after he jumped overboard and tried

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join us at noon on thursday as the 160 congress gavels into session. watch your member to the oath of office. the election of a new speaker and the candidates begin work. new congress, new leaders. live on c-span and c-span2. >> host: this is kyle kondik, sabato'sing editor of crystal ball joining us to talk about campaign 2020. morning. >> guest: good morning. >> host: what is it like looking at these situations with announcementren's this week? >> guest: feels like 2016 on the you hadan side where candidates getting in. in that race there was not big fish that sueded other candidates from entering the race. who dip major candidate run on the republican side of 2016 was mitt romney. was able to push out mit roll romney but was not able to push out anyone else. candidatetsider donald trump getting the nomination. cue go back to 1976 and the andcrat that was big field jimmy carter came out of that who iss was candidate not established person, so one very bign the democratic field, if this race may throw out a curve ball and someone may emerge that we do

whether or not people will come in and interview with us, we don't have gavels or the subpoena power. we will still trying to interview people and we will still be making criminal referrals. >> tucker: thank you very much. well, a television actor was hospitalized if chicago. he was victim of a racist attack. we don't have all the evidence. some politicians weighed in immediately describing it as a modern day lynching. police this chicago trying to find out more about what happened. >> reporter: chicago police tells fox news, they pulled hundreds of hours of surveillance video in the area where this alleged attack happen. nothing shows the alleged assault. what chicago police do say, they have identified two persons of interest on this surveillance video. they plan on releasing photos some time soon. chicago police addressing media reports that smollett suffered a fractured rib. police tells fox news, they do not center documentation of the actor suffering a fractured rib. the rib could have happened. they can't confirm the injury. what they have confirmed, based on the digital footpr

when you're positive and committed to using that energy, [gavel]. >> chair mandelman: the meeting will come to order. welcome to the january 23, 2019 regular meeting of the public safety and neighborhood services committee. i'm supervisor raphael mandelman, the chair of the committee. to my right is supervisor ronen, to my left is supervisor peskin. the clerk is john carol. i'd like to to thank the group at

not agree with what i'm going to do, i have the gavel. i think that's the words she used at one of her speeches. maxine showshich up. if she is someone who wants to work with us, we are ready to work with her. she and the chairman at the time in december got together on jobs act 3.0. if she brings a built up, i'm sure we would be willing to support all of it. >> we appreciate you coming in. the houseer of financial services committee, now in the minority on a fascinating day here in washington, d.c., between speaker pelosi and president trump. lisa: thank you very much. great interview. i just want to read a rate the news on ford. lossthe second quarterly ford has posted on a gaap basis since early 2009. posted a net loss of $116,000. this is bloomberg. ♪ loss ford has posted ononford has pon i am a family man. i am a techie dad. i believe the best technology should feel effortless. like magic. at comcast, it's my job to develop, apps and tools that simplify your experience. my name is mike, i'm in product development at comcast. we're

nancy pelosi retaking the gavel in a tight vote to become the speaker of the house for the 116th congress with full control of the house, many democrats not wasting time for articles of impeachment against donald trump. todd pyro joins us live to break it down. >> despite talk of all of challenge it was nancy pelosi sworn in as speaker of the house. >> congratulations, madame speaker. [applause] >> the vote along party lines, nancy pelosi wins 220 votes, house minority leader kevin mccarthy with 192 votes. with their new powerhouse democrats approved most of sweeping new rules package that restricts spending, defeating progressive blowback from the likes of alexandria cardio cortez and it shakes up several voting procedures in committees. as for those committees the new chairs are jerry nadler of the house judiciary committee, adam schiff, chairman about intel committee, elijah cummings, the house oversight and reform committee and maxine waters, chair of the house financial services committee and richard deal, chair of the house ways and means committee. a veritable who's who on the trum

join us at noon as it would hundred 16th congress gavels into session. you can watch the election of a new speaker and the congress doing its work. new congress, new leaders, live on c-span and c-span2. back to capitol hill, where last month the house financial services committee held a hearing on the national debt, which totaled more than $21 trillion at the end of 2018. >> this hearing is entitled the peril of an entitled national debt. i offer apologies to the witnesses that we are starting floor vote.e due to i recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. most people know that i'm getting ready to lead congress at the end of the year. i leave, hopefully with many friends. we get away, maybe an enemy or two. a body of work i am proud of by leaping great regrets. i have no greater regret in my inability to convince more my friends and colleagues of the peril of an on interest -- of an on addressed national debt. having been a veteran of the less than super supercommittee and of the commission, my ipad is awash with reports saying our

>> everybeddeody accused of us being trigger happy with impeachment. >> the gavel and the power, congressman. >> and we're feeling it. but look we've got to keep congress together. we got to keep our majority together and we got to keep the country together and people understand we're dealing with a very unusual situation -- >> yes. >> -- where the corruption and criminality in the white house is pervasive. impeachment is no fetish but no tap oo either. we understand it's very much part of the kaunconstitution. it has played an important role. and self defense of the congress and the people about a president who insists on acting like a king. so when presidents decide they're going to set themselves at war against the constitution and rule of law, then impeachment may be the end of the road indeed. >> you mentioned the nixon article oz of impeachment, article one, obstruction of justice. improve -- counsel to lawfully authorize investigative officers and employees in the united states and false or misleading testimony in dually congressional proceedings. i want to get you on the record here.